Franz Levacher

Franz Levacher (born October 4, 1880 in Saarlouis , † 1947 ) was a Saarland politician ( center , NSDAP ) and a member of the Saarland regional council .

Life

Levacher studied law and passed his first state examination in Cologne in 1901 , then the great state examination in Berlin in 1907. In 1902 and 1903, he completed his military service.

From 1908 he was a lawyer at the Saarlouis District Court . He experienced the First World War as a soldier at the front and was awarded the Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class. After the end of the war, he began working in a law firm with Hubert Ney in 1919 .

From 1919 to 1934 Levacher was a member of the center and became a parliamentary group leader in the Saarland regional council. He was also spokesman for foreign policy problems in the National Council and spokesman for the center in a delegation that represented Saarland interests at the League of Nations in Geneva .

Levacher became a member of the German Front Movement , an initiative under the control of the NSDAP, which campaigned for the Saar area to join the German Reich . A “leadership council” was formed, to which Franz Levacher belonged. In 1935 he finished his work in the office with Ney, after the dissolution of the Center Party, Levacher became a member of the NSDAP on November 1, 1935. He became head of the legal counseling center of the National Socialist Legal Guardian Association in Saarlouis.

Publications

• with Fritz Kloevekorn : The Saar region, its structure, its problems , Gebr. Hoser, Saarbrücken

literature

• Peter Wettmann-Jungblut, Rainer Möhler: Lawyers on the Saar 1800–1960 . Gollenstein, 2004, ISBN 978-3-935731-19-5 , p. 514.

Web links

• Franz Levacher at the Saarland biographies

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The fight for the Saar vote, 1932 to 1935 ( Memento from January 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), Saarland State Parliament, accessed on October 31, 2012